Button Your Lip! Loose Talk Can Cost Lives

© Artist or Publisher. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction…
© Artist or Publisher
Button Your Lip! Loose Talk Can Cost Lives
© Artist or Publisher. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Button Your Lip! Loose Talk Can Cost Lives

Date1942
Artist Otto Soglow American illustrator and cartoonist, 1900–1975
Illustration CitationWorld War II poster
MediumThree-color commercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 18 7/8 × 12 15/16 in. (47.9 × 32.9 cm)
sheet: 20 × 14 in. (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-26
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis World War II poster promotes the need for concealment of war-related information; was issued by the British and American Ambulance Corps in 1942. Otto Soglow was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in many magazines, as well as in 35 books.